Chapter 166. To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the keeping of employment agencies in the District of Columbia where fees are charged for procuring employment or situations,” approved June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six
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CHAP. 166.— An Act To amend section eight of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate the keeping of employment agencies in the District of Columbia where fees are charged for procuring employment or situations,” approved June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six. February 20, 1909.[[H. R. 20247](/us/bill/70/hr/20247).][[Pubic, No. 249.](/us/pl/70/249)] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That section eight of an ActDistrict of Columbia.Employment agencies.Vol.34, p. 307, amended. entitled “An Act to regulate the keeping of employment agencies in the District of Columbia where fees are charged for procuring employment or situations,” approved June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six, be amended to read as follows:
Sec. 8. That the fees charged for the employment of agriculturalFees. hands, coachmen, grooms, hostlers, seamstresses, cooks, waiters, waitresses, scrubwomen, nurses (except professional nurses), chambermaids, maids of all work, domestics, servants, or other laborers (except 642 seamen), or for the purpose of procuring or giving information concerning such person for or to employers, shall be as follows: “Employment agents or agencies shall be entitled to receive inAmount increased. advance from an employer, for male or female employees, two dollars each: *Provided*, That such fee shall entitle said employer to at least*Provisos.*Thiry days’ service. thirty days’ service from said male or female employee, or from other employees at the same rate of wages to be furnished by said employment agent or agencies.
“Employment agents or agencies shall be entitled to receive inReturn of one-half of fees. advance from the applicant for work or employment, either male or female, one dollar each, one-half of which is to be returned on demand if such applicant is not secured a fair opportunity of employment within fifteen days after the receipt of said original fee of one dollar: *Provided*,*Provisos.*Time limit.Addiional fee. That where the male or female employee receives employment at a rate of wage of twenty-five dollars per month or more, said employment agent or agency shall, on obtaining employment for such employee, receive an additional one dollar from said employee: *Provided*,Refund of transportation expense, etc.
That the whole fee and any sums paid by the applicant for transportation in going to and returning from such employer shall be refunded within four days of demand, if no employment of the kind applied for was vacant at the place to which the applicant was directed: *And provided further*, That it shall be unlawful for any employmentRestriction. agent or agency to receive more than the fees set forth in this Act in the business aforesaid. “It shall be the duty of such licensed person to give to every applicantReceipts. for employment from whom a fee shall be received a receipt in which shall be stated the name of said applicant, the date and amount of the fee, and the purpose for which it was paid, and to every applicant for help a receipt stating the name and address of said applicant, the date and amount of the fee, and the kind of help to be provided.
Every such receipt, excepting only those given by theatrical and teachers’ agencies and those procuring technical, clerical, sales, and executive positions for men only, shall have printed on the back thereof a copy of this section in the English language. No suchDivision of fees prohibited. licensed person shall divide fees with contractors or their agents or other employers or anyone in their employ to whom applicants for employment are sent. Every such licensed person shall give to eachCards for applicants, etc. applicant for employment a card or printed paper containing the name of the applicant for employment, name and address of such employment agency, and the written name and address of the person to whom the applicant is sent for employment.
Every such licensed person shall post in a conspicuous place in each room of such agency a plain and legible copy of this Act, which shall be printed in large type.” Approved, February 20, 1909.